Growing up in a traditional Hindu family, today's guest never imagined his life would become a testimony to the power of Christ.

After a terminal diagnosis left him abandoned outside his family's home, an unexpected encounter with Jesus changed everything.

His miraculous healing became the beginning of a costly journey of faith.

Rejected by his community, separated from his family, and eventually called into ministry, he learned firsthand what it means to follow Jesus regardless of the cost.

Today, God is using that same faithfulness to strengthen churches, care for vulnerable children, equip pastors, and proclaim the gospel throughout India.

This episode offers both an inspiring testimony and a compelling reminder that the Church continues to grow even under pressure.

• Jesus continues to reveal Himself in remarkable ways around the world.
• Following Christ often requires costly obedience.
• Persecution has not stopped the growth of the Church in India.
• Christian education can transform the future of entire communities.
• Caring for vulnerable children demonstrates the love of Christ in practical ways.
• Local pastors and church planters remain at the center of gospel ministry.
• Faithful partnership strengthens long-term Kingdom work.

00:00 Welcome and introduction

02:00 Growing up in a Hindu priest's family

05:00 A miraculous healing and encounter with Jesus

12:00 Rejection, persecution, and leaving home

18:00 A call into ministry

24:00 Church planting in India

31:00 Caring for vulnerable children through Christian education

39:00 The resilience of the Indian Church

46:00 Partnership, prayer, and the future of ministry

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A medical degree can open doors around the world, but it cannot accomplish the Great Commission on its own.

In this conversation, an experienced physician reflects on the journey that led him from family practice in the United States to decades of serving alongside local churches and medical professionals across the globe.

The discussion explores how healthcare becomes a bridge for relationships, discipleship, and gospel witness.

Through stories of healing, discernment, and collaboration, the episode demonstrates that lasting transformation happens when ministry empowers local leaders rather than replacing them.

The conversation concludes with practical encouragement for students and professionals who sense God calling them into global missions.

Whatever your vocation, the invitation remains the same: faithfully follow Jesus where you are today while remaining open to wherever He may lead tomorrow.

• God often uses ordinary careers for extraordinary Kingdom purposes.
• Medical missions are most effective when they strengthen local churches and leaders.
• Discernment is just as important as diagnosis.
• Lasting community transformation requires multiplication, not dependency.
• Every believer is called to make disciples, regardless of profession.
• Faithfulness begins at home before it extends across the world.
• Practical skills can become powerful tools for gospel ministry.

00:00 A doctor's unexpected journey into missions

05:30 A worship service that changed everything

10:20 Seeing patients as whole people

16:00 Diagnosis, discernment, and the work of the Holy Spirit

21:00 Why local leaders matter most

27:00 Community health and sustainable ministry

33:00 Training church planters through practical healthcare

39:00 Advice for future medical missionaries

44:00 Every vocation belongs in God's mission

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The modern Church often talks about faithfulness in theory. Stephanie Quick lives it in practice.

Speaking from northern Israel near the borders of Lebanon and Syria, she shares how a series of unexpected acts of obedience led her to a region she never planned to call home.

The conversation explores life during conflict, what it means to minister in a place shaped by uncertainty, and how proximity to war changes one's perspective on worship, calling, and dependence on God.

Stephanie reflects on the grace that accompanies obedience and the surprising peace that can come when God places someone exactly where He intends them to be.

The discussion then turns toward the deeper challenges facing the Church.

From polarization surrounding Israel and the Middle East to the temptations of tribalism within Christian communities, Stephanie argues that the cross remains the great equalizer.

In an age dominated by outrage, platforms, and competing narratives, believers are called to keep a tender heart, stay rooted in Scripture, and bear faithful witness to Jesus.

• Obedience often leads where comfort never would.
• Living near conflict exposes what we truly trust.
• The cross dismantles tribalism and calls believers to love even those they consider enemies.
• Ministry is strongest when it functions more like a table than a platform.
• Scripture must remain the Church's primary source of formation in a distracted age.
• The Church must resist offense and cultivate spiritual resilience.
• Faithfulness requires both conviction and humility.

00:00 Introduction and Stephanie's journey to Israel

03:00 Living near the borders of Lebanon and Syria

05:15 Worship, discipleship, and faith during conflict

11:45 The story behind Emmaus Table

14:30 Theology, Israel, and ministry in the Middle East

19:45 Why the cross confronts tribalism

24:30 Loving enemies in polarized times

27:00 A message to the Western Church

31:15 Keeping a tender heart in the last days

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There are still places in the world where the gospel has little presence. Villages without roads. Communities hidden deep beyond rivers and jungle trails. Places most people will never see.

In this episode, we talk with Larry Montgomery about what it actually looks like to go there. Together we unpack the logistics, partnerships, risks, and spiritual realities behind ministry in hard-to-reach places.

But this conversation goes deeper than stories of travel and hardship. It becomes a reflection on calling, obedience, and the way God changes people when they step beyond comfort for the sake of the gospel.

• Why “all the easy places are taken” continues to shape frontier mission work
• How local pastors, translators, drivers, cooks, and ministry partners make remote outreach possible
• A powerful story of a father carrying his daughter for hours through the jungle seeking help
• Why many people go for the adventure but return because they encounter the need for the gospel
• The importance of preparation, partnership, and wisdom when entering difficult places
• How mission experiences often reshape a person’s worldview and calling
• Why no one is meant to sit out the work of the Great Commission

00:00 — Welcome to Season Two and the reality of unreached places
03:20 — Entering Nueva San Martin for the first time
07:10 — Why GO continues pursuing hard-to-reach communities
11:15 — A miraculous story from deep in the Peruvian jungle
17:40 — The role of local partners and Peruvian believers
24:30 — Why strategy and partnership matter in frontier mission
29:10 — Adventure versus calling: what keeps people returning
33:00 — Risk, preparation, and trusting God in difficult places
39:25 — How mission work changed Larry’s life forever
45:00 — Encouragement for listeners sensing God’s invitation

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For generations, the funding of missions has followed familiar patterns: churches send missionaries, donors give financially, and organizations coordinate the work.

But what if the future of missions requires something more diverse?

In this episode, Curtis Elliott sits down with Lexington business leader Philip Petrie to explore how the marketplace can become a meaningful part of global mission.

Drawing from years of entrepreneurship and international engagement, Philip shares how business leaders can think about stewardship, generosity, and the responsibility that comes with resources.

Their conversation challenges assumptions about return on investment, control, and the role of business in the Great Commission.

The result is a thoughtful exploration of what it means to fund and participate in the mission of God with open hands.

• Marketplace leadership can be a genuine calling - not separate from mission but integrated with it.
• Kingdom generosity grows when leaders see resources as something entrusted to them, not owned by them.
• Relationships often reveal where God is inviting believers to give or participate.
• Sustainable mission models increasingly prioritize empowering local leaders.
• Marketplace-based mission approaches can create deeper cultural engagement.
• Early generosity forms habits that shape long-term stewardship.
• The future of missions may include smaller, more contextualized expressions of impact.

00:00 — The Question of Funding the Future of Missions
Curtis introduces the episode and the importance of kingdom investment.

01:16 — Business Calling and Christian Identity
Philip reflects on how entrepreneurship and faith have become integrated in his life.

03:22 — Marketplace Community in Lexington
The influence of relationships among Christian business leaders.

04:58 — A Hard Business Decision That Changed Everything
Closing company markets to rebuild culture and align the business with kingdom values.

06:54 — How Kingdom Culture Connects to Global Missions
Why relationships often reveal where God is calling believers to participate.

10:30 — The Problem with Measuring Kingdom ROI
Why obedience matters more than calculating spiritual returns.

13:27 — Stewardship vs Ownership
The danger of controlling resources instead of holding them open-handedly.

16:21 — Prayer, Discernment, and Giving Decisions
How Philip and his wife approach generosity together.

18:08 — Advice for Young Entrepreneurs
Why generosity should begin early, even when resources are limited.

20:26 — The Future of Missions
Marketplace engagement, local leadership, and new models of mission impact.

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Christianity is no longer centered in the West.

The fastest growth is happening in post-colonial contexts across Africa, Asia, and Latin America - places where believers are asking different questions of Scripture and developing theology from within their own realities.

In this conversation, Jay Moon reflects on his years among the Bulsa people of Ghana and the moment he realized that a guilt-based presentation of the gospel did not address their deepest fears. That shift reshaped his theology of evangelism.

But the conversation doesn’t stop overseas. Jay argues that the emerging worldview in the West is no longer guilt, fear, or shame - but indifference. And if the Church fails to listen carefully, we will continue offering answers to questions no one is asking.

• Christianity is growing fastest in post-colonial contexts where Western influence is weakest.
• All theology is contextual theology - the question is who gets to ask the questions.
• The gospel addresses guilt, but also fear and shame.
• Many cultures operate from a fear-power or shame-honor worldview rather than guilt-justice.
• The emerging worldview in the West is indifference - a longing for belonging and purpose.
• Evangelism begins by listening to the conversation God is already having with people.
• Churches and mission agencies must cultivate missional imagination to avoid the “curse of knowledge.”

00:00 – Christianity shifting to the Global South
05:30 – Post-colonial theology and local autonomy
12:40 – Secularization and the loss of spiritual imagination
18:15 – A story of spiritual warfare and worldview assumptions
24:20 – Ghana and the Bulsa people: When guilt didn’t resonate
33:10 – Fear, shame, and the power of Christ
41:45 – The rise of indifference in the West
49:30 – Belonging, purpose, and Zacchaeus
56:00 – Missional imagination and kingdom innovation
1:05:00 – The curse of knowledge and Blockbuster vs. Netflix

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For decades, Mongolia was shaped by isolation, communism, and spiritual suppression. Today, the doors are open, and a young generation is responding to the gospel with hunger and joy.

In this conversation, Ron Howe and Dr. Thane Urie reflect on why Mongolia matters now. They share firsthand stories of young pastors, first-generation believers, and churches being planted one relationship at a time.

Growth is steady, but the need for discipleship is urgent.

This episode challenges Western assumptions about success in missions. It reminds us that the Church is not built through events or personalities, but through long obedience, patient teaching, and walking with local leaders who will carry the work forward.

• Missions is not starting something new, but catching up with what God has been doing for centuries
• Mongolia’s Church is young, both in age and spiritual formation
• Discipleship, not speed, determines long-term fruit
• Freedom of religion brings opportunity and new challenges
• Local leaders need presence more than programs
• One faithful convert at a time can reshape a nation

• 00:00 – Why Mongolia, Why Now
• 08:30 – Catching Up With What God Has Been Doing
• 18:45 – Life After Communism
• 30:10 – The Urgency of Discipleship
• 42:00 – Walking With Local Leaders
• 54:30 – What Faithful Growth Really Looks Like

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Women across cultures carry physical, emotional, and spiritual weight that often goes unseen. These burdens shape families and communities, yet are rarely named in discipleship models.

When they remain hidden, growth stalls and leaders remain isolated.

In this episode, we explore how equipping women with truth helps break silence, restore confidence, and activate disciple-makers within their existing networks.

Rather than importing programs, the focus is on facilitation, trust, and walking with women as they recognize their God-given worth.

The conversation highlights how discipleship multiplies when women are given tools that are transferable, relational, and rooted in Scripture.

What emerges is not hype, but steady growth shaped by obedience and long-term presence.

• Women often carry unseen shame, silence, and responsibility across cultures
• Discipleship stalls when burdens remain unnamed
• Confidence grows when lies are replaced with God’s truth
• Women are naturally positioned to multiply disciples relationally
• Facilitation works better than expert-driven models
• Equipping leads to activation, not dependency
• Multiplication happens when women lead within their existing networks

• 00:00 – Why Equip Her exists
• 04:30 – The unseen weight women carry
• 09:45 – Silence, shame, and discipleship gaps
• 16:00 – Truth, lies, and activation
• 24:30 – Holistic discipleship and women’s health
• 33:00 – Training that multiplies
• 41:15 – What success really looks like

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